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Szweykowski studied the 19th-century Polish novel.
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Zygmunt Szweykowski
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In 1932-1939, Szweykowski held a professorship at the Free Polish University (Wolna Wszechnica Polska) in Warsaw and Łódź. During the World World War II Nazi occupation of Poland, he participated, at the risk of his life, in underground university teaching in Warsaw. From 1946 he held a chair at Poznań University.
In 1950 he was inducted into the Polish Academy of Learning, and in 1951 into the Polish Academy of Sciences.
His books in this field included and Trylogia Sienkiewicza (Sienkiewicz"s Trilogy, 1961). His specialty, however, was the writings of Bolesław Prus.
His books on Prus include Tworczość Bolesława Prusa (The Art of Bolesław Prus, 1947. 2nd ed, 1972) and Nie tylko o Prusie: szkice (Not Only about Prus: Sketches, 1967).
Beginning in 1948, Szweykowski produced monumental editions of Prus" collected Pisma (Writings).
He also edited Krystyna Tokarzówna"s and Stanisław Fita"s exhaustive Bolesław Prus, 1847-1912: Kalendarz życia i twórczości (Bolesław Prus, 1847-1912: a Calendar of and Work), Warsaw, Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1969.
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February 11, 1978 (aged 83) -
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Polish